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    The Endless Discussion About Throttlegate

    April 3rd, 2018

    I thought the furor about Apple’s throttling of the performance of iPhones with degraded batteries would have ended by now. But when lawyers stand to make millions of dollars in fees from class-action lawsuits, it may well be that it’ll take years to resolve, unless there’s a quick settlement. It started innocently enough when Apple […]


    Winning By Cheating

    October 3rd, 2013

    When I first set up a Samsung Galaxy S4, I decided to run a set of benchmarks just to see how well it did. As already reported by the media, it scored more than twice as fast as its predecessor, the Galaxy S3. But it didn’t feel that much faster, if at all. It still […]


    The Apple/Intel Report: Fair Pricing?

    January 14th, 2006

    Now that Apple has begun to put Macs on an equal footing with standard PC hardware, at least in terms of the basic internal parts, pricing comparisons will become more common. In the past, it was easy to favor Apple in such a comparison, by pointing out that Macs had more standard features and superior […]